This paper examines a type of quotation – ‘hybrid quotations’ – that has received quite a bit of attention from philosophers, semanticists and pragmaticists over the last dozen years or so. Theoretical debates have centred on the question whether the contribution to content of such quotations is semantic in essence, or pragmatic. After presenting prototypical examples of ‘mixed quotation’ and ‘...

The present writer has counted 224 direct citations introduced by a definite formula indicating the writer purposed to quote. To these must be added seven cases where a second quotation is introduced by the conjunction “and,” and 19 cases where a paraphrase or summary rather than a direct quotation follows the introductory formula. We may further note at least 45 instances where the similarity ...

We consider supply chain networks composed of several centrally managed production facilities as well as external suppliers. We design effective heuristics for inventory positioning, order sequencing, and short and reliable due date quotation for this supply chain. We perform extensive computational testing to assess the effectiveness of our algorithms, and we explore the impact of supply chain...

Facultad de Traducción e Interpretación, ULPGC, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (España). Dirección para correspondencia: [email protected]. This check was carried out on two separate occasions on January 22 and 23, 2003, and the results were the same. In fact, the “Quoted phrase not found” notice only appears when “osseous structures” is entered with quotation marks. Unlike Google and other search ...

In this rebuttal letter byMichel P Coleman and colleagues (BMJ 2011;343:d4214, doi:10.1136/bmj.d4214), the authors quote from Beral and Peto’s original editorial (BMJ 2010;341:c4112, doi:10.1136/bmj.c4112). In the full text, online version of their letter, the italic emphasis that Coleman and colleagues had added to certain parts of this quotation was lost (because the whole quotation was publi...

Direct quotations are used for opinion mining and information extraction as they have an easy to extract span and they can be attributed to a speaker with high accuracy. However, simply focusing on direct quotations ignores around half of all reported speech, which is in the form of indirect or mixed speech. This work presents the first large-scale experiments in indirect and mixed quotation ex...

Based on the analysis of problems and difficulties in apparel quotation system, this paper puts forward the combination of BPM and SOA as a new idea for analysis of apparel quotation system, according to their advantages in business goals and requirements analysis, and the corresponding services’ definition, extraction, optimization and integration. Through the combination, system flexibility, ...

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